Treat yourself or that special someone with this delicious prawn sticks with Thai Dipping Sauce!
Seriously guys, let’s talk about how gorgeous these shrimp skewers look. They took only 10 minutes to make in the air fryer.
Indulge in delicious nutty flavors with a hint of cayenne pepper that teases your taste buds as you wait for the heat to kick in, but never does. Only to keep you wanting more and more after each bite.
How To Make Prawn Sticks In The Air Fryer
This prawn skewers with Thai dipping sauce is a quick and healthy meal! Each shrimp is coated with a dipping sauce that has bold nutty and sweet flavor.
Let’s start with gathering the ingredients. You need just two simple ingredients: the Thai dipping sauce ingredients I previously shared in an earlier post, and shrimp. Other optional choices to include in your shrimp skewers are zucchini, bell peppers, green onions, and cherry tomatoes.
Be sure that the shrimps at minimum are the large ones – the bigger the better! At the grocery stores in the frozen section, you can easily find 16-20 shrimps in a bag. The shrimps must be deveined and shells removed.
Once the ingredients are gathered, it’s time to start threading the shrimp and vegetables.
Why does this recipe work?
You know I love my easy and time saving recipes. Shrimp recipes are extremely easy to make, they are full of protein, light, and healthy. It’s easy to turn shrimps into a meal.
I’ve been in an Asian culinary mood lately, so I’m bringing a piece of the Asian cuisine to you!
When making this shrimp skewers recipe, you could add anything you want in terms of vegetables. For these air fryer prawn skewers I added zucchini, green onions, and cherry tomatoes.
This recipe comes together easily in 8-10 minutes, tops!
If you don’t have an air fryer, consider baking them in the oven for 10 minutes or until you have reached your desired texture.
Pretty much use what you have at your disposal.
This recipe is made with basic ingredients, which is something to appreciate when we’re short of ingredients.
It’s very delicious, fancy, and is presented well for a dinner party.
This shrimp skewers can be served with pretty much anything. It can be part of a side dish or served with salads. Or it can a stand-alone appetizer.
Recipe Variations
Versatility doesn’t hurt. If you lack some of the mentioned ingredients to complete this recipe, try adding a little bit of the following suggestions listed below:
- Red onion
- Sliced pineapples
- Bell peppers
- Cucumbers
- Carrots if baking in the oven
- You can even mix it with chicken breast. The sauce also works great as I have used it in this Chicken Skewers recipe.
What to serve with these prawns
Shrimp skewers or prawn sticks are a classic option, especially during the summer time. But this recipe can be served all year around. You can complete the meal by serving these shrimp kabobs over this dill rice or over this Haitian Black Rice. The possibilities are endless.
What did you serve this air fryer shrimp kabobs with? Let me know in the comments!
If you love this recipe…
Try these dessert air fryer dishes like this Air Fryer Cinnamon Rolls with homemade cream cheese frosting or these Air Fryer Oreos.
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Air Fryer Prawn Sticks With Thai Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
- ½ Lb. Jumbo shrimp Raw; peeled
Thai Dipping Sauce
- ⅓ Cup Peanut Butter Creamy
- 1 Tsp. Ground Cayenne Pepper
- 3 Tbsp. Orange Juice
- ⅔ Cup Teriyaki Sauce
- 2 Garlic Cloves Minced
Instructions
- Peel the shrimp, wash and set aside.
- Thread the shrimp with desired vegetables. Set on the air fryer skewer rack.
- Combine the teriyaki sauce, cayenne pepper, peanut butter, orange juice, and garlic in a bowl. Mix well. Reserve about ⅓ cup in a separate small bowl for dipping and set aside.
- Base the skewers with the dipping sauce with a brush.
- Cook for 10 minutes on 360 degrees.
- Serve warm as a side and enjoy.
Kushigalu says
Love prawns in any form. Sauce sounds delicious too. Yummy!
Mirlene says
Thank you!
Nart at Cooking with Nart says
These look great. I have an air-fryer so I’m definitely trying this!
Dannii says
All my favourite flavours in this. The peanut dipping sauce sounds amazing.
Charla says
Mirlene, this skewers look amazing. From one seafood lover to another I’m about to dust off my air fryer and make these for the summer.
Alexandra says
I am always looking for new ways to use my air fryer, and these prawn sticks are SO good! Love that Thai dipping sauce!